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HETEREPHYRA FULVESCENS, new species. 



Forcirrnij. — (iroiind color yellow, covered Avitli orantve-red scales; 

 costa blackish in ba.^al half; the three median nervules g'ra}'; lines 

 ])rown-red; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, 

 elbowed on median vein; outer line, acutely dentate-lunulate; from 

 three-fourths of costa to live-sixths of inner margin, the angles on 

 veins and 4 prominent; median line just be3'ond middle, oblique to 

 6, then vertical to 4; thence concave to inner margin; cell mark linear; 

 along the discocellular; submarginal line thick, concave from seven- 

 eighths of costa to hind margin at vein 4, reappearing as a l>lotch at 

 anal angle; marginal line dark brown, interrupted by a yellow spot on 

 the veins; fringe ))r()wnish fulvous; the space before median line 

 below median vein is often darker. 



nindir'iiKj. — With all the veins gray and a gray shade before middle 

 line, containing a single black cell spot. 



Under side dull deep reddish, with the outer lines marked darker. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, the a))domen grayer; face 

 dark bi'own. 



Expanse of wuh/h. — 122-24 nun. 



Locality. — Cayenne, French Guiana; ?> females, January and Feb- 

 ruary, 11»()4. 



This species is near //. hinifira {DysepJnjrn) Warren", also described 

 from three females. The smaller female there referred to, from 

 Cucuta, Venezuela, as having the second (median) line of forewings 

 not denticulate, and only^ the upper of the two black discal spots of 

 hindwings l)elonos to the present species. 



Ty/M.- Cat. No. !»241, U.S.N.M. 



HETEREPHYRA GRISEA, new species. 



Extremely like //. jumvtatu Stoll, but rather larger, and altogether 

 lacking the red tinge of that in.sect, the ground color being gray-fawn; 

 the lines are the same in the main, but the inner and outer lines arc 

 nuich less deeply sinuate. 



Under side similarly much paler. The al)domen and thorax gray. 



Locality. — Trinidad, British West Indies; I female. 



Type.— Ojii. No. 9242. U.S.N.M. 



HETEREPHYRA SCRIPTURATA, new species. 



Fore^nlng. — -Olivi'-ochreous; the markings purplish brown: costa 

 purplish; base with three thick transverse streaks from sul)costal 

 vein, oblicpie outwards, the third sinuous; cell spot ocelloid, formed 

 by two thick oblique purplish streaks with the discocellular pale 

 between them; median lino outcurved round it above, below the middle 

 parallel to the three basal streaks; outer line parallel to median, but 



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